Architect? A Candid Guide to the Profession

ISBN-10: 0262518848

ISBN-13: 9780262518840

Edition: 3rd 2013

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Since 1985, Architect? has been an essential text for aspiringarchitects, offering the best basic guide to the profession available. This third edition has beensubstantially revised and rewritten, with new material covering the latest developments inarchitectural and construction technologies, digital methodologies, new areas of focus in teachingand practice, evolving aesthetic philosophies, sustainability and green architecture, andalternatives to traditional practice. Architect? tells theinside story of architectural education and practice; it is realistic, unvarnished, and insightful.Chapter 1 asks "Why Be an Architect?" and chapter 2 offers reasons "Why Not to Be anArchitect." After this provocative beginning, Architect? goes on to explain and critiquearchitectural education, covering admission, degree and curriculum types, and workload as well assuch post-degree options as internship, teaching, and work in related fields. It offers a detaileddiscussion of professors and practitioners and the "-isms" and "-ologies" mostprevalent in teaching and practicing architecture. It explains how an architect works and gets work,and describes architectural services from initial client contact to construction oversight. The newedition also includes a generous selection of drawings and cartoons from the author's WashingtonPost column, "Shaping the City," offering teachable moments wittily in graphicform.The author, Roger Lewis, has taught, practiced, and written extensivelyabout architecture for many years. In Architect? he explains -- for students,professors, practitioners, and even prospective clients -- how architects think and work and whatthey care about as they strive to make the built environment more commodious, more beautiful, andmore sustainable.

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Til Wykes is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at Kings College London,Director of the National Institute for Health Research Mental Health Research Network, Codirector ofthe Service User Research Enterprise, and editor of the journal MentalHealth.Roger K. Lewis is a practicing architect and planner, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Maryland, and a columnist for the Washington Post.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

To Be or Not to Be&#8230;an Architect?

Why Be an Architect?

Creative and Intellectual Fulfillment

Contributing to Culture and Civilization

Love of Drawing-without a Computer

Service to Others

Teaching

A Great Profession for Polymaths

Money and Lifestyle

Social Status

Fame

Immortality

Fulfilling the Dictates of Personality

Freedom to Do Your Own Thing

Why Not to Be an Architect

Odds of Becoming an Architect

Lack of Work

Competition

Inadequate Compensation

Ego Vulnerability-Getting Lost in the Crowd

The Risks of Envy

Lack of Power and Influence

Anxiety, Disappointment, Depression

Personal Encumbrances

Lack of Aptitude

Lack of Passion and Dedication

Legal and Financial Risks

Disillusionment

Becoming an Architect

The Structure of Architectural Education

Degree Pathways

Curricular Content

Design

History

Technology-Structures, Materials and Methods of Construction, Environmental and Energy Technologies

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